Obtaining arterial stiffness indices from simple arm cuff measurements: the holy qrail?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2159-2161

  Boutouyrie, Pierre ^a,b   Revera, Miriam ^c,d   Parati, Gianfranco ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CUFF; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEASUREMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 73249139725     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328332f588     Document Type: Note

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